Background*

Dr. Daniel H. Yergin, also known as Dan, Ph.D. is a Managing Director and Senior Advisor at Riverstone Holdings LLC. Dr. Yergin has been affiliated with the firm since its inception. He is an Advisor at Accelergy Corporation, since December 11, 2006. Dr. Yergin serves as an Advisor at Candide Media Works, Inc. He also serves as a Senior Advisor at Energy Capital Partners. He served as an Executive Vice President and Strategic Advisor at IHS Inc., from September 26, 2006 ... to June 2012. Dr. Yergin taught at the Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He has been Vice Chairman of IHS Inc., since July 10, 2012. Dr. Yergin is the Chairman of IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates, where he advises companies, governments, and financial institutions around the world regarding energy and power matters. Dr. Yergin serves as the Chairman of Management Advisory Board of GeoSynFuels, LLC. He is a Member of the Board of the United States Energy Association and serves on the U.S. Secretary of Energy and Advisory Board. Dr. Yergin serves as a Director of New America Foundation. He serves as a Trustee of The Brookings Institution. Dr. Yergin serves as a Member of the Advisory Board of Azima DLI LLC and Azima Inc. He serves as a Director of the US-Russian Business Council and the Atlantic Partnership. Dr. Yergin serves as a Director of the US-Russia Business Council and serves on the Advisory Board of Energy Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institute for 21st Century Energy and the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He is also on Singapore’s International Energy Advisory Board and the Yale Center for Energy and Climate Advisory Board. Dr. Yergin served as Member of Board of Advisors of DLI Engineering Corporation. He was a Member of the U.S.ll Secretary of Energy Advisory Board’s subcommittee. Dr. Yergin Chaired the United States Department of Energy's task force on Strategic Energy Research and Development. Dr. Yergin was a Member of Board of Advisors of GridPoint, Inc. since March 2008. He served as a Vice Chair of the new National Petroleum Council study, “Prudent Development: Realizing the Potential of North America’s Abundant Natural Gas and Oil Resources.” He is both a world-recognized author and a Business Leader. Dr. Yergin has also written for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, International Herald Tribune and many other publications. Dr. Yergin and his colleague Thane Gustafson authored Russia 2010 and What It Means for the World , which depicted Russia’s move to a market economy and The New York Times called “invaluable“ and The Financial Times described as “extraordinarily intelligent.” His latest book The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, has been hailed as “a fascinating saga” about the “quest for sustainable resources of energy and “a masterly piece of work” by The Economist. Dr. Yergin is both a Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of the U.S. Energy Award for lifelong achievements in energy and the promotion of international understanding. Dr. Yergin received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his work The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, which became a #1 national best seller and was made into an eight-hour PBS/BBC series seen by 20 million people in the United States. Dr. Yergin was awarded the Medal of the President of the Republic of Italy for combining “an understanding of the dynamics of the market with a broad view of the forces of geopolitics as he seeks to point the way to the positive outcomes for the world community.” He has been named one of the 500 most influential people in the United States in the field of foreign policy by the World Affairs Councils of America. In 2014, India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presented him a Lifetime Achievement Award, and he was awarded James Schlesinger Medal for Energy Security by U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernie Moniz. The International Association for Energy Economics gave Dr. Yergin its 2012 award for “outstanding contributions to the profession of energy economics and to its literature. His book, The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy Russia 2010, with CERA President Joseph Stanislaw, has received wide attention for its analysis and narrative of how the “world is changing its mind about markets and government.” In 2011, the Alliance to Save Energy honored him as “Star of Energy Efficiency.” Dr. Yergin holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a B.A. from Yale University, where he founded The New Journal.

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